]12:04am (PDT+3) From:   
   ] seanc130@hotmail.com (Sean Carroll)   
      
   ]And shows are not 'brought to us by' the   
   ] companies who buy commercial space during   
   ] them. They are brought to us by the actors,   
   ] writers, directors, producers, and crew   
   ] members who work their asses off trying to   
   ] make something that's entertaining and   
   ] worthwhile, not by a bunch of stupid   
   ] accountants and CEOs who sit on their asses   
   ] around a table, randomly pick a show to   
   ] advertise on, knowing nothing about it except   
   ] its ratings, and then pat themselves on the   
   ] back.   
      
   Wrong, wrong, wrong, etc! Who do you think pays for TV anyway? It is the   
   companies who advertise on all of these shows. The companies pay the   
   networks for air time, and the networks use some of that money to pay   
   the studios for TV shows. So it is the ads, and commericals from   
   companies that make all of this TV stuff possible. How did you think the   
   writers, and directors, and actors got paid for all of their hard work?   
   It all comes down to TV advertising, if the companies did not advertise   
   on TV there would not be any TV. Think about that the next time you fast   
   forward through a bunch of commercials. Of course there is always Cable   
   with "no commercials", but then you do pay for that! So Free TV is paid   
   for by the companies that advertize on it, and Cable TV is paid for by   
   the subscribers.   
      
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